STILL

The world seems dark and insecure and afraid, but God, who created the world is still in and over the world and in control.  We must look beyond the bad news the evil, the senseless, and look to the One who created and Still reigns over all.  The sun still comes up and shines brightly, the birds flutter in the wind.  The trees still sway to the music in the summer breeze.  There is still beauty around, still peace, still presence here.  Look around, there is victory on the horizon.  We don't have to be afraid but  be faithful til the finish.  He is still God.  Just be still and know that He is God. 

Still.

Light Overcomes the Darkness

Morning Light - Sanctuary Hill

 Lightness can illuminate the darkness.
  The darkness can be so black, you wonder
if you will ever see the light of day.  The
 Light is there, He is always there, but our eyes are shielded by the darkness of deception, disappointment, loss, and depression.  

Darkness blinds.  Darkness binds grief and pain to a cavern of lostness.  Darkness attaches itself to depression which finds it way to a path of heaviness and hopelessness weighted down in loneliness.  Lying down in the lies of aloneness, Feelings of despair, distorted thoughts, untruths that weave in distress, discouragement, feeling defenseless.

The light of day, the Light of hope dissipates the darkness which despises the light.  Darkness avoids the glimmer of light but can't flee the brightness of the Son.  Darkness is not the Creator but was dispelled when God said "Let there be light" and there was light. Genesis 1:2.Darkness has to flee.  Shadows reveal  there is hope  through  illuminating what the darkness tries to hide and cover.

Brilliant light strips the blindness of the path our eyes are unable to see and could not find.  It was a colorless place devoid of any hope, The Truth uncovers  what is hidden and reflects a horizon of hope that was hindered and  harassed through disillusionment.  The burdens are lifted the Light subdues the heaviness and harnesses in belief and anticipation, hope.

The Light dispels the darkness and the shifting shadows of deception. The Light fulfills what has been depleted.

 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.(John 1:5 NAS) He is the Light.  Jesus is the Light.  In Him was Life, and that Life was the light of men. (John 1:4) 
 Light always  overcomes the darkness.

Where is His Word?

Where is His Word? 

Is it sitting on the shelf, sitting in the backseat of your car?  Where is it?  Open in front of you, yet unable to see what He is saying.  Reading but not retaining, Hearing but not listening. The answers to life are here, waiting to be revealed to unlock the map of your journey so you may walk His way, hear His voice but only when you are still and quiet.  Searching and seeking for more will He reveal, revamp and restore.  Where is His Word for you?  Remove it from the shelf, the backseat, He longs to guide you to understanding, wisdom, and the knowledge of Life.   Find it, reach for it, read and listen.  Life is abundant, more than the mundane.  Seek and you will find. 

New Memories

The end of a day, a year that has past.  It is memories, the moments of defeat, discouragement, trials.  Yes but the moments of faith, trust walking into the unknown of the All-Knowing.  Hold a hand of certainty in the times of uncertainty.  Fears and feelings of anxiety,  stressed in tiredness.  Worry, sleepless nights of wandering the what-ifs.  You turn to prayer, you cry out, you walk away, leaving behind the fretting the feelings of fright.  You lean in, you focus, you reach out for truth.  The truth that reveals the answers to the questions and to the questions unanswered.  The Truth.  Ask, ponder, reflect, and remember.  Reminisce the moments, only to renew and explore a new day, the new year.  Ready or not, Let's Go.  2015.  Spring will be here before you know it.  Enjoy this season, this moment, this day, this new year.  Blessings to you.

 

Beauty Beholder

"Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder" written to describe how beauty is observed to the one who is watching. Beauty is beyond our perception, for its mere existence comes from the Designer of all things, who spoke beauty into being.  We may perceive something less or more attractive based on outward appearances, but  He looks beyond outward, and views within, where true beauty resides.  Define beauty is to define the Beholder, the one who originated, initiated beauty, the Beauty Beholder, the Beauty Bestow er, undefined and indescribable is He. Our awareness is blinded by our own interpretation and limited perceptions, God on the other hand, sees a reflection of Himself,  like a mirror reflects an image.  Perceptions have been wrong because of  the unknown, unwilling to look and see beyond the appearance, our shallow misconceptions, the value above the view we call unattractive, less than, doesn't fit the mode.  How hollow our field of vision,  the unnoticed blessings of beauty by virtue through our smallness.  Look again, stare if you must, gaze at the beauty of opinion of ugliness.  Look closer, don't turn away, focus.  Don't miss grace through offensiveness.  Look over the ugliness and see Grace, beauty bestowed by the Designer who formed that which we disregard, overlook.  Beauty  is in the eye of The Beholder.  Look again, see the mirror and what is reflected.  Can you see the beauty that is being bestowed right before your very eyes? Behold His beauty in the unsightliness, the unattractiveness, the depravity.  the deformity, the uncleanness. Beyond the outward is beauty which beckons us to recognize and adore. 

Mirror the reflection of Beauty